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Joseph D. Belfiore — 26 Patents

Microsoft: 26 patents #1,112 of 40,388Top 3%
Redmond, WA: #392 of 8,547 inventorsTop 5%
Washington: #3,231 of 76,902 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
Joseph D. Belfiore has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in November 2008. Joseph D. Belfiore ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list Joseph D. Belfiore in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2008Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 1998.peak 71997: 4 patents19971998: 7 patents1999: 4 patents19992000: 2 patents2001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 1 patents2008: 2 patents2008

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7454462 Distributed computing services platform David G. Campbell, Steve Capps, Steven Cellini, Charles Fitzgerald, Vivek Paul Gundotra +9 more 2008-11-18 $21,361,000
7454706 Multiple-page shell user interface Joseph H. Matthews, III, Stephen P. Capps, Hillel Noah Cooperman 2008-11-18 $21,361,000
7263551 Distributed computing services platform David G. Campbell, Steve Capps, Steven Cellini, Charles Fitzgerald, Vivek Paul Gundotra +9 more 2007-08-28 $25,091,000
7089502 Shell extensions for an operating system Satoshi Nakajima, George H. Pitt, III, Christopher J. Guzak, Chee H. Chew 2006-08-08 $31,016,000
6990513 Distributed computing services platform David G. Campbell, Steve Capps, Steven Cellini, Charles Fitzgerald, Vivek Paul Gundotra +9 more 2006-01-24 $27,353,000
6678724 Common namespace for internet and local filesystem objects Satoshi Nakajima, Christopher J. Guzak, Chee H. Chew 2004-01-13 $117,998,000
6525748 Method for downloading a sitemap from a server computer to a client computer in a web environment Ian M. Ellison-Taylor, Sankaranarayanan Ramasubramanian, Chee H. Chew, Scott E. Berkun 2003-02-25 $151,393,000
6437810 Shell extensions for an operating system Satoshi Nakajima, George H. Pitt, III, Christopher J. Guzak, Chee H. Chew 2002-08-20 $164,429,000
6175863 Storage of sitemaps at server sites for holding information regarding content Ian M. Ellison-Taylor, Sankaranarayanan Ramasubramanian, Chee H. Chew, Scott E. Berkun 2001-01-16 $416,606,000
6160550 Shell extensions for an operating system Satoshi Nakajima, George H. Pitt, III, Christopher J. Guzak, Chee H. Chew 2000-12-12 $487,846,000
6038610 Storage of sitemaps at server sites for holding information regarding content Ian M. Ellison-Taylor, Sankaranarayanan Ramasubramanian, Chee H. Chew, Scott E. Berkun 2000-03-14 $512,542,000
6008806 Shell extensions for an operating system Satoshi Nakajima, George H. Pitt, III, Christopher J. Guzak, Chee H. Chew 1999-12-28 $310,134,000
6009459 Intelligent automatic searching for resources in a distributed environment Satoshi Nakajima, Chee H. Chew 1999-12-28 $310,134,000
5920316 Taskbar with start menu Daniel Oran, Ian M. Ellison-Taylor, Chee H. Chew, Mark A. Malamud, Jeffrey L. Bogdan +1 more 1999-07-06 $423,309,000
5886699 Method and system for transferring data to common destinations using a common destination list Christopher J. Guzak, Chee H. Chew, Mark A. Malamud, Royce A. Levien 1999-03-23 $839,667,000
5852441 Shell extensions for an operating system Satoshi Nakajima, George H. Pitt, III, Christopher J. Guzak 1998-12-22 $390,054,000
5844551 Shell extensions for an operating system Satoshi Nakajima, George H. Pitt, III, Christopher J. Guzak 1998-12-01 $185,577,000
5838322 Shell extensions for an operating system Satoshi Nakajima, George H. Pitt, III, Christopher J. Guzak 1998-11-17 $197,751,000
5831606 Shell extensions for an operating system Satoshi Nakajima, George H. Pitt, III, Christopher J. Guzak 1998-11-03 $271,169,000
5764983 Method and system for efficiently creating a new file associated with an application program Chee H. Chew 1998-06-09 $118,792,000
5757371 Taskbar with start menu Daniel Oran, Ian M. Ellison-Taylor, Chee H. Chew, Mark A. Malamud, Jeffrey L. Bogdan +1 more 1998-05-26 $120,770,000
5726687 Auto-scrolling with mouse speed computation during dragging Christopher J. Guzak, Christopher E. Graham, Stephen M. Madigan, Tandy Trower, Randall Lee Kerr +1 more 1998-03-10 $625,580,000
5694563 Method and system for transferring data to common destinations using a common destination list Christopher J. Guzak, Chee H. Chew, Mark A. Malamud, Royce A. Levien 1997-12-02 $163,256,000
5689662 Shell extensions for an operating system Satoshi Nakajima, George H. Pitt, III, Christopher J. Guzak 1997-11-18 $138,739,000
5617526 Operating system provided notification area for displaying visual notifications from application programs Daniel Oran, Teresa A. Serrador, George H. Pitt, III 1997-04-01 $233,035,000